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Main Entry:	plate [pleyt] Show IPA/pleɪt/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	dish or meal served
Synonyms:	bowl, casserole, course, helping, platter, portion, service, serving, trencher
Notes:	dish is a more general term and plate is more specialized

Main Entry:	plate
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	coat with metallic material
Synonyms:	anodize, bronze, chrome, cover, electroplate, enamel, encrust, face, flake, foil, gild, laminate, layer, nickel, overlay, platinize, scale, silver, stratify

Main Entry:	armor
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	protective covering, often made of metal
Synonyms:	bulletproof vest, defense, guard, mail, plate, protection, security, sheath, shield

Example Sentences

Illustrated with fifty-two pages of photographs, thirty drawings and one color plate.

Officers dispatched to a report of an unwanted guest sleeping face down in a plate of food.

With a testing year ahead, world leaders must step up to the plate.

Illustrated with fifty-two pages of photographs, thirty drawings and one color plate.

Officers dispatched to a report of an unwanted guest sleeping face down in a plate of food.

With a testing year ahead, world leaders must step up to the plate.

Students will be introduced to the concept of plate tectonics and the natural disasters that can occur when plates shift.

Plate tectonics determines the location of oil and gas.

Tongue, livers, sweatbreads and headcheese made their return to the plate.

Here, the molding creates and unexpected plate rail for display, as well.

The plate itself is a normal ceramic circle, but it has circuitry printed on it.

She ate two big soup bowls full of stew and an entire dinner plate of rice.

Then, the exhaust heat from the bottom plate of the thermoelectric device would be used in the traditional way to warm water.

When the leading edge of a heavy plate meets the edge of a lighter plate, the heavier plate bends downward.

If you've ever sat down at a pub to a plate of really good fish and chips-the kind in which the fish stays tender and.

They looked at the hunks of purple of my plate and wrinkled their noses.

On one end of a plate spoon the hummus and the tapenade then on the other end, place the salad.

Once the plate is fully submerged, gently stir the solution until your image shows on the plate as clear black and white.

Don't keep a hot plate inches away from a large stack of papers.

To make it foam, draught stout is forced through a special plate.

They form a so-called subduction zone, in which one plate dives beneath another.

Because some plant pigments can stain, you should do this on a plate so that the color will not stain your work surface.

My bloody mary sports a dilly bean, my eggs share a plate with crawfish étouffée and my flatware is.

Sprinkle seeds onto a plate and allow them to dry for one to three days, depending on the weather.

The researchers then seeded their bacteria in coded dot patterns on a plate of agar.

Then see if you are still burning to add philosophy to your plate.

Under the new rules, which came into effect last year, a licence plate belongs to the car even if the owner changes address.

Sometimes an ocean plate bumps into a continental, or land, plate.

How fast these bones move toward home plate then determines the release velocity of the baseball.

Stack the rolled pieces on a plate as you complete the process.

Throw them on a plate or in a bowl and spend more time relaxing than preparing your food.

First, there is a plate which screws on to the body of your camera via the tripod socket.

I've seen my dept in similar situations recently really step up to the plate.

The problem is knowing precisely where the fish on the plate came from.

The melting of the rock occurs at the subduction zones as one plate is pushed under the other.

If you want meat on the plate then something has to die.

The decorative motif on the figure's breast plate is a derivative of the motif on the drawing's breast plate.

He pulls open the door and slides in a plate with fish and tofu.

Wallow in memories of the ditto machine and armor plate.

It's never easy but there is so much on your plate at the moment.

In baseball, umpires are supposed to call balls and strikes based on where a ball crosses home plate.

Drop glops onto a baking sheet or plate lined with wax paper and allow to cool.

Animals have come up with some pretty clever tricks for keeping themselves off a predator's dinner plate.

Officers manually enter license plate numbers and return an hour or two later to re-enter the plates.

He ignored distinctions of race or caste, and was happy to eat rice from an aluminium plate in the house of an untouchable.

The new measurement technique may also help address many longstanding puzzles in plate tectonics.

The planet does lose some heat through the processes that drive plate tectonics, especially at mid-ocean ridges.

Another is that the flying platter is not supposed to deform, so it is usually a thick plate of steel or other hard metal.

Tokyo may have more pressing issues on its plate than fish.

Use a smaller plate to help you take smaller portions of food at mealtimes.

Many vest designs incorporate a solid plate over the heart which on my earlier vests was steel, but soon will be a ceramic.

It's a good idea to open up your crock and remove your weights and plate everyday and clean them with hot soapy water.

In between come explanations of geology and plate tectonics.

Indeed it's a bronze disk, and it's the size of a large dinner plate.

Mountains and valleys emerge and disappear due to plate tectonics.

The photo above shows the bike with the battery removed but the battery plate in place.

Then he stuck them on an iron plate using a mixture of ash, resin and wax, and held them in place with an iron frame.

Let the seeds cool, then transfer them to a plate lined with paper towels to soak up the extra oil.

Erosion is offset by the mountain-building effects of plate tectonics and volcanoes.

When particles in the air hit the sensors, the plate vibrates.

The key thing is the size of the sensor, not the millions of pixels on your plate.

Volcanic activity is closely linked with plate tectonics.

Seventy-five subjects walked over a force plate instead of running on a treadmill, and used several types of shoes.

Stress-free animals eat more and arrive on your dinner plate that much faster.

And the underwriters could have stepped up to the plate.

They took a leaf, covered it with a black plate with a slit in it and switched on a strong lamp.

Researchers tested the iPhone attachment on this plate reader, which determines the nanosensors' response to the reader.

On the outside of a fuel cell there is an anode plate with a positive charge as well as a cathode plate with a negative charge.

Main Entry:	banality
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	common saying
Synonyms:	adage, boiler, buzzword, chestnut, cliché, corn, dullsville, familiar tune, high camp, hokum, old chestnut, old saw, plate, platitude, prosaicism, prosaism, saw, trite phrase, trivia, triviality, truism
Antonyms:	coinage, nuance, original saying

Main Entry:	coat
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	cover with layer of material
Synonyms:	apply, cover, crust, enamel, foil, glaze, incrust, laminate, paint, plaster, plate, smear, spread, stain, surface, varnish
Notes:	skin is the general term for an animal's outer covering; the layer of fur, hair, or wool is the coat; hide is the tough skin of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is untanned skin of fur-bearing animals
Antonyms:	reveal, uncover

Main Entry:	dish
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	eating receptacle
Synonyms:	bowl, casserole, ceramic, china, container, cup, mug, pitcher, plate, platter, porringer, pot, pottery, salver, saucer, tray, vessel

Main Entry:	disk
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	round object
Synonyms:	circle, disc, discoid, discoidal, discus, dish, flan, plate, platter, quoit, sabot, saucer, shell

Main Entry:	flake
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	scale, peel
Synonyms:	cell, disk, drop, foil, lamella, lamina, layer, leaf, membrane, pellicle, plate, scab, section, shaving, sheet, skin, slice, sliver, wafer

Main Entry:	gild
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	embellish, decorate
Synonyms:	adorn, aureate, aurify, beautify, bedeck, begild, brighten, coat, deck, dress up, embroider, engild, enhance, enrich, garnish, glitter, grace, ornament, overlay, paint, plate, tinsel, varnish, wash, whitewash

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